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When launching a new site here are some Wordpress plugins we automatically add to our blogs:

WordPress Plugin

A plugin is something that you download, unzip and place in the WordPress plugin directory. Once activated, the odd tweak and you usually can put it to work to help enhance your website or blog.

All in One SEO Pack
Google Sitemap Generator
WordBay Advertising plugin for eBay
Enhanced WordPress Contact Form
Redirection

What is affiliate marketing you ask? It is when webmasters (some prefer webninja’s) sign up for a program like Commission Junction (CJ) to help with their product sales.

By paying others a commission to market your wares is a great way to encourage webmasters with high traffic sites to add your banner and send you some business. The banner below is not tied to an affiliate program as I did not register with CJ as an affiliate but wanted to touch on how to use affiliate marketing to help promote your website. This particular program pays 15% commission for sales.

This is one of the better marketing banners I have seen in the online marketplace. To be successful in online sales you need traffic, exposure, affiliates and a good marketing plan. No traffic, No mola (profit).

Sometimes the website or domain you are purchasing has significant value and may require more documentation then a simple e-mail.

Here is a sample website sales agreement or can also be used as a domain name sales or purchase agreement.

Download free sample website purchase agreement in Microsoft word:

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LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING for acquisition of www.domainprotege.com

June 22, 2007

(name)

(street address)

(city, state and zip)

Dear_____________________:

This letter summarizes the understanding we have reached regarding the terms and conditions of sale of the website ________________ To be certain this letter accurately reflects our understanding, please review the items below and indicate your understanding and agreement by signing on the signature line below.

Terms and Conditions of Sale

A. The agreement covers the outright sale of the domain and website content http://www.________________ for the price of U$__________. Sale price was based on revenue of approximately $100.00 per calendar month. Price includes free push at _____________ and all paid up domain registration fees.

B. Payment terms: Payment will be made by way of or using _________________. Add paypal or escrow info.

Just delete section C if not applicable but gives you an idea of how to structure something in the event seller makes certain promises regarding revenue.

C. Search Engine Optimization (SEO): This component of the agreement will commence July 1, 2007 and will continue until cancelled in writing by either party. The seller and buyer agree to engage in further work such as SEO where the buyer agrees to pay the seller a 50% performance bonus of all additional revenues generated as a result of these optimizations. This bonus would be payable for all additional revenue over and above the last three month average.

Example of Bonus Calculation: Year 2007

April $100, May $100, June $160 Total $360 (3 month average = $120.00)

If July revenue = $200. Seller would receive $40.00 for that month (Split $80.00).

If August revenue = $400. Seller would receive $140.00 for that month (Split $280.00)

Signed this 22 day of June, 2007

Print name

________________________________ _________________________________

Buyer Signature

I acknowledge and agree to the terms and conditions set forth above.

Print name

___________________________________ _________________________________

Seller of Domain / Website Signature

In addition, always remember to use escrow as opposed to paypal for the larger valued transactions.

Dear Webmaster,

My name is ____________ and would like to propose a link exchange for our site http://www.__________.com/ with your website http://www.autoinsurancevancouver.com.  We have already placed a link to your site on the following webpage http://www.______________.com

Your Link details are As Follows:

<a href=”http://www.autoinsurancevancouver.com/” target=”_blank”>Auto Insurance Vancouver</a>  -  Auto Insurance Vancouver delivers all the information consumers require to make an informed decision on all your Vancouver insurance needs. We cover auto, motorcycle, boat, recreational, RV, home insurance and even help on how to import an automobile.

Kindly link back to our site with the following details:

Title  : Motor Insurance

Desc   : Immediate Quote Online for Motor Insurance at XYZ Insurance.

Url    : http://www._________.com

Our link code is :

<a href=”http://www.__________.com/” target=”_blank”>Motor Insurance</a> - Immediate Quote Online for Motor Insurance at XYZ Insurance.

If you wish to have your details on our webpage changed, We would be interested in modification as per your requirements.

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Thanks
Best Regards
Your Name

This is a great approach to securing good quality links.

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Available to download for free from the RegCure.com website, the utility packs quite the unexpected punch for such a lightweight app. At just over 1mb in size, it certainly won’t be clustering your hard drive to the hilt. But good things can come in small packages, and RegCure proves it so.

First things first, we should note that while RegCure is free to download, it isn’t strictly free to use. You will need to register before you can fix the sizable chunk of errors that the program is likely to report. The trial version allows a maximum of five errors to be fixed. And unless you unwrapped your copy of Microsoft Windows in the last five minutes, this is going to leave some of the problems untreated.

The utility is simplified to cater for absolute beginners with its “one click to a finish” system. But while beginners will be able to make use of the software, so will the computer gurus at the other end of the market. RegCure is excellent at what it does, so what does it do?

It gives a remarkable boost to your PC performance. The application tackles all issues related to corruption of the Windows registry. Anybody who has spent a reasonable amount of time looking in to Windows problems will be aware that many of the errors we encounter are down to an untidy registry, corrupted or otherwise.

For a typical user to go in and reverse the necessary changes to restore a healthy registry, you could set aside a day or two. Errors are a pain to fix, and you really have to know what you’re doing as a bad edit could lock you out of the system completely.

This, of course, leads us to the benefits of RegCure. The utility is designed specifically to automate the process of cleaning a Windows registry. It will fix the outdated entries, remove the invalid data, and clean out anything and everything that you don’t need. Just follow the simple three step process and you will be left with an overview of the errors that RegCure detected. Get RegCure.

Here is a simple draft letter you can use to request a link from another webmaster…

Hi (webmaster’s name),

My name is (your name) and I work with (website’s name) to help spread the word about their great (free products/services/content, etc.).

I was hoping you’d consider mentioning us to your users or linking to us on your (provide the webmaster with the specific page you’d like to see your link shown on, include the section, if necessary - be specific).

Please find a brief overview of what we offer visitors below.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via e-mail or with a quick call. I am a real person and will reply quickly.

Thanks again for your time & consideration.

(Your name)
(website URL)
(e-mail address & phone number)
__________________________________________

Brief run-down on what the site’s about and the value it offers.

Article writing can be painful but the benefit to improving your page site rank is proven.

Unless you are already an expert in the field you are writing on, you have to research your topics so you come across as someone knowledgeable in the field you are representing. Take the time to write and rewrite your article to ensure it has correct grammar and that it offers something of value to your target audience.

Article Writing and Article Submission sites in my rolodex …

Ezine Articles

Article City

e-Articles

A1 Articles

Article Alley

Article Beach

Most provide free article submission and are reviewed prior to publication.

www.autoinsurancevancouver.com Top ranking site

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www.austinflowers.mobi This site is both .mobi viewer & regular browser friendly.

www.banrock.com

www.creditfixscore.com

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Make your offer via the Contact Us Page

Domain parking is a service whereby you park your domains free of charge. The parking agency then places targeted advertising on your parked domains and you earn money whenever visitors to your domains click on the ads. Each parking service takes their portion of the advertising revenue and submits remainder to your account. All parking services have minimum payouts and a variety of ready to use templates or landing pages.

www.namedrive.com

www.sedo.com
www.fabulous.com

Free Themes

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Dosh Dosh Adsense

Free WordPress Themes

Kalina

SEO

All in one SEO Pack

SEO Stuff

Blogs

MyResizer.com Image Resizer

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NameBio Domain Sales Index or history

Sometimes you just have too many domain names…these are some names we do not have time to develop. LLLL.com for sale and L-L.ca … To make an offer please do so using the contact us page.

Greetings,

Sub: Very Rare and Special Domain name WWW.—–.COM is for sale.

We have this registered domain www.—–.com for sale. We believe it is most suitable for your company since —- [the name] can be applied to your company and its business activities.

It is one of a kind rare and special domain with many applications. It has a high resale value and many possibilities.

If this domain is of interest, please send your offers using the above e-mail address for primary contact. Minimum price expected is US $ ________–[US Dollars __________]. This is a non negotiable minimum expected price. Please do not send offers below this price.

Kindly forward this message to the appropriate authority in your organisation for consideration. Thank you.

Best Regards,

signed

Template you can use when considering hiring a link builder…

Require 100 links for my website www.creditfixscore.com It is a credit report, credit fix, credit score website. Keywords: credit score, good credit score, credit repair, credit score, credit score history, credit history, credit report, FICO score, FICO credit score.

Only links from directly relevant sites related to the target sites topic will be accepted.

- All links must be permanent one-way links.
- All links must be permanent one way static html links with the anchor text of our choosing with no rel=nofollow links in the code.
- The link from page must be indexed with PR4 or higher by Google, no redirects, javascript links, hidden links, or other unethical tactics. No Google banned sites or sites that will cause Google to rank my website lower.
- PR is for linking page not for site. The minimum deliver is 20 PR5 and 10 PR6 or better, $3 bonus for any link on page with PR7 or better
- We will check the ranking of each and every link via SEO software to make sure that link LANDING page is PR4+
- Link from page must be search engine friendly. (static page) ie no redirects, cloaking, etc. or db driven. Page must not be dis-allowed by robots.txt
- The ideal page will be a content page themed to the target sites topic. This is not a requirement; it is however, the preference.
- Link pages must be cached by Google and Yahoo
- You May Not Link From: link farms, link-exchange programs, blogs, FFAs, no banned sites by Google,
NO ILLEGAL/SCAM/SPAM sites, No adult sites, no classifieds or pharmacy, gaming, forums, political, guestbooks, dynamic links black hat links and just plain what we consider, poor Links.
- Articles will be accepted (as long as they have PR5 or above)
- Web directory will be accepted (as long as they are related and no more than 20 total)
- The linking page must have no more than 30 outbound links.
- One link per domain, all from different c-classes/different IP’s.
- English web sites only.
- All links must be static, standard href type links (no cgi etc.) and direct using provided anchor text.
- Links must be permanent, active and NEVER expire.

Please submit to us an Excel sheet of all pages with our links - URL of site, date submitted, URL of page, site PR, page PR. Payment When the links have been listed in Google, Yahoo or MSN using the link:www.domain.com” command.

To Register .com Domains

or most other domain name extensions for that matter, GoDaddy is the provider I use. It has the best user or admin panel. Transferring sold or purchased domain names is simple.

Here is a great site I use to get all the live GoDaddy promo codes Promo Codes … a .com domain registration fee from a reputable company for $6.95 is tough to beat.

They call themselves the World’s #1 Webhost - 1&1 Internet Inc.

Enom Domain registration is yet another registrar…and there are many more.

To Register .ca Domains - CIRA certified

Namespro.ca - Register your domains for $12.88 CDN.
Lowest price in Canada. Click here.

namespro.ca $12.88
DomainsatCost $12.95

Namespro is the cheapest for .CA domain name registrations, (April 2008), c/w a user friendly control panel is my first choice. The DomainsatCost panel is a little confusing and for me time is money so bouncing around different control panels is not how I would prefer to spend my time. The quicker we get the task done the better.

If you have mega websites and are on a limited budget or just looking for cheap hosting recommend you take a look at Tech Entrance. Very reasonable monthly rates for both shared and proxy hosting services.

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Automatic WordPress installations
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Have been with them for 6 months without any issues-to-date.

Manage your domains. Find a good registrar and try to keep all of your domains names with as few registrars as possible. This can be challenging if you own numerous domains with multiple extensions but sticking with less than three can really eliminate headaches or dropped names.

Domain management is a challenge for anyone with a large number of domain names under their umbrella. Just how do you keep track of which registrars your domains are registered with? Which email addresses are in use as the site contact? Which name-servers are used by which domains? And probably priority one is when the names due to expire? GoDaddy is great as they notify you months in advance as to when your name is about to expire, however if you are looking for something more robust to protect, organize, track and manage your domain names look at Watch My Domains Pro - this suite is not free but does exactly that.

One of the ideas we had for DomainProtege.com was to develop it into a domain name monitoring software suite.

DNZoom did something similar so if warrants, finding a software suite that will help you simplify management is worth pursuing. Try DNZoom it is bit cumbersome but has some good features.